Florida's fast track death penalty bill is blood-thirsty form of justice

May 1, 2013|By Gary Stein

This is one that will made all those red-blooded, blood-thirsty Floridians stand up and cheer:

Florida is trying to speed up executions.

Yep. We can’t fry ‘em anymore because those liberals made us get rid of Ol Sparky, but we sure can put the needle in ‘em quicker.

And those appeals? Who needs all of ‘em? Get those needles ready.

That’s basically what some folks in the Florida Legislature are saying after the Senate this week passed the Timely Justice Bill. No word on whether Gov. Rick Scott will sign the bill, which will shorten the appeals process and remove the governor’s discretion of when to order an execution.

What lunacy.

At a time when we should be talking about eliminating the death penalty, here is Florida wanting to set the tone by killing ‘em quicker.

Again, what lunacy.

Florida, you might recall, has had more death row inmates exonerated because of prosecution mistakes than any other state. But hey, why worry about a few mistakes when you can get a good execution?

DNA evidence, which wasn’t available when many were sentenced to death row, has caused many of the overturned convictions.

But hey, DNA is a bunch of gobbledygook, right? Please let us have our executions, the blood-thirsty types say. Put ‘em on TV, please.

Again, what lunacy.

Instead of trying to speed up executions, we should be coming u with ways to get rid of the death penalty.

It is arbitrarily used, it has no deterrent effect, it is more costly than putting prisoners way for life.